I feel like I’ve been kind of in the loop for most of the headlines regarding this confrontation. Yet somehow I can’t find it within myself to actually care about either side. It seems like both are lead by genocidal parties, hell bent on indoctrinating their populace into hating the other side. Yet at the same time people are able to discern which state is the good one. And some going so far as to believe that one state might even be right over the other.
So far from what I’ve read and heard, it seems that overall Isreal is just more successful militarily and is encroaching on Palestinian land, and is exhibiting control over some of it. Is that the reason why one might support Palestine? Is it the fact that Isreal has more direct power in the region and thus can easily execute its will a problematic issue for some? From what I can see, both sides have caused massive civilian casualties and neither side wants a two state solution, so neither of those reasons can be a contributing factor to side picking, right? That being said, I can’t find a reason for supporting Isreal, so does Palestine win out by default? But what of the people that support Isreal, do they do that purely because they’re an American ally? Is any of this side taking have anything to do with the insertion of Jews into the region? What is expected to be done outside of a two state solution or genocide by those taking sides?
I have a lot of questions, and I obviously don’t expect all of them to be answered in a single post. So maybe focusing on the elements you’re highly informed on would be helpful and then I can kind of piece together the details. Thank you in advance!
Israel as a country may have started gaining support after the second world war, but that was only because there was already a significant Jewish population in the area following anti-Jewish action decades before that, starting in Eastern Europe. Israel has since colonised far outside its original borders, but the original plans for the two state solution were based on existing Jewish property ownership.
Blaming the British isn’t entirely fair, because the origins of the current conflict already started back when the area was under Ottoman occupation. Even while the Jews were being murdered in camps in Germany, the British refused many Jews entry to Palestine, as the locals were none to happy with them fleeing there. In the last year’s of British control, illegally immigrating Jews were even put into camps by the British.
The whole conflict is a big pile of messes upon messes created by unreasonable hatred and a thirst for power, going back hundreds, if not thousands, of years.